jhipkiss Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 I had Mandrake 9.2 on my PC and the sound was fine, when I upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 I lost all sound and when I boot it complains that it can't find a sound card. The sound is part of the motherboard which is a Soltec SL-85DRV5-C When I logon I get this in a popup entitled "Informational - artsmessage": Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Any ideas? I'm fairly new to Linux so am unsure where to start first. Thanks for any advice. Jonathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 (edited) Post the relevant lspci -v output For your card. (if lspci gives command unknown install the pciutils packages) Look in the kde control center, sound & multimedia, soundsystem, hardware should be 'autodetect' If that doesn't work, configure the sound setup again with the Mandrake control center (MCC, hardware, hardware, soundcard, configure). Make sure every sound application is closed, including kmix in the system tray (next to the clock)) and load the module (driver in Windows) for your card. Then go to MCC, system, services and start ALSA. Then try again. Good luck Edited September 14, 2004 by devries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhipkiss Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 thanks I'll try these but here's an update: If I login as root and then bring up Kmix and increase the volumne on the various channels the sound works fine, if I then logout of root and login as me then the sound is still fine. However, I login straight as me after boot I get the above error and get no sound, even if I then login as root, I have to restart and go back via root again!!! Is this some sort of permissions issue to do with initialising the sound???? Here's lspci's stuff: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4161 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 I/O ports at dc00 Capabilities: <available only to root> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhipkiss Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 I ran alsaconf from root and it sorted my problems out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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